May 2017, [Volume 26, Issue 5]

Features

Crowdsourcing: friend or foe of KM?

Often used for innovation, crowdsourcing can bypass organizational structures to obtain insights from large groups of individuals either within the company or outside it.

Knowledge management:
persistence pays off in the manufacturing sector

Enterprise knowledge management initiatives are challenging to initiate and sustain in global manufacturing organizations. Bringing KM principles to the culture of engineers and project management teams spread across the globe can be daunting. Here are two examples of companies that have persevered with enterprise social networking and other innovations as they promote cultural change.

Records Management - Overcoming barriers to gain rewards

Records management has been compared to taking out the trash—no one likes to do it, but if you don't, the house will start to smell.

The future is now: cognitive computing throughout the enterprise today

Regardless of what else cognitive computing may achieve, it is already considerably impacting the business user's data-driven practices.

Assessing your portfolio of knowledge management approaches

When an organization first decides to invest in better knowledge management, the team in charge often struggles to prioritize knowledge needs and select the right combination of tools and approaches to address them. Different parts of the business have different requirements, and it's hard to please everyone.

Psychographics, statistics and Big Brother

The fact is that any of the techniques available to the market today for predicting one's actions based on a profile can be important tools, but they cannot, with any great accuracy, predict the behavior of one single individual. They rely on groups of similar individuals to predict the probability of one person's actions.

David Weinberger

The news is no more

By now I assume we're all tired not only of hearing fake news, but also of hearing about fake news. We've seen how it arises and spreads due to flaws in the structure of the Internet. We've heard lots of proposals for how to fix the problem, most of them implausible.

The Future of the Future

Building the high-trust enterprise

In a low-trust organization, people are afraid to share what they know. Knowledge flows are stifled.